Buyers agent in Camp Hill

14 properties secured for clients in Camp Hill since 2024. What we bought, what we paid where the buyer agreed to say, and who did the buying.

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14

purchases in Camp Hill

2024 to 2026

years we have bought here

$770,000 to $3,750,000

published prices (12 of 14)

Hunter Gather has bought 14 properties in Camp Hill for clients since 2024, and the list below is every one we are able to show. Of the purchases where the property type is on record, that is 1 house. Camp Hill sits inside our Brisbane buying area, which our agents cover street by street rather than from a desk.

Where the buyer agreed to publish the price, Camp Hill purchases ranged from $770,000 to $3,750,000 (12 of 14 published). The rest settled privately at the buyer's request.

The buying in Camp Hill was done by Jacob Butler, Kate Wilson, Jillian Breen, David Thomas and Chavonne Olivier. Whoever you speak to first, the search runs on the same shared database and the same weekly cadence.

We also wrote up Camp Hill in our guide to the best Brisbane suburbs: read the Camp Hill section.

Where Camp Hill sits

Camp Hill is the high ground of the inner east: about six kilometres south-east of the CBD, 4.8 square kilometres of ridges and gullies with three named hills (Esquiline Hill, Sankeys Mountain and Whites Hill at 112 metres) and 170 hectares of bushland reserve along its southern edge. Coorparoo sits to the west, Norman Park and Seven Hills to the north, Carina to the east, Carina Heights and Holland Park to the south. Old Cleveland Road runs straight through the middle, which is both the suburb's bus line and its one loud street.

Boundaries
Whites Hill Reserve closes off the south. Old Cleveland Road is the east-west spine. Stanley Road and Chatsworth Road are the other two radials, and the ground drops away to the west toward the Norman Creek catchment on the Coorparoo and Norman Park side.
The roads
Old Cleveland Road (the buses, the school, the shops, the traffic). Stanley Road and Chatsworth Road (the quieter runs toward the city and Norman Park). Samuel Street and Martha Street (the village). Boundary Road (the way into Whites Hill Reserve)
Next door
CoorparooNorman ParkSeven HillsCarinaCarina HeightsHolland Park

The pockets

The suburb street by street: who each pocket suits and what to check there.

The numbers on the map above mark each pocket.

1Martha Street village

Martha Street between Samuel Street and Leicester Street, and the grid of Wiles, Stephen and Newman around it

The cafes cluster on Martha Street, St Thomas' is on Stephen Street, Camp Hill Kindy is on Wiles Street and Rays by Range is on Newman Avenue. Post-war homes on 600 to 800 square metre blocks, most of them lifted, extended or replaced in the last fifteen years. Parking on a Saturday morning is the only complaint.

Suits Families who want the school run, the kindy and Saturday coffee all on foot. The pocket most Camp Hill briefs start with.

2The Marketplace end

Samuel Street around Camp Hill Marketplace, Thomas Street, and the side streets that climb to Old Cleveland Road

Woolworths at 25 Samuel Street, Grill'd and Jocelyn's Provisions beside it, and the 203 looping past the door. Flatter than the rest of the suburb, which is why the knockdown-rebuilds concentrate here. Check which side of the Camp Hill State Infants and Primary boundary the address sits on before you count on it.

Suits Buyers who want the supermarket, the chemist and the 200 bus within a few hundred metres and do not mind a little more movement on the street.

3The Whites Hill side

Boundary Road, Burn Street and the streets that back onto the reserve

Streets end in 170 hectares of dry rainforest and sports fields. The college is at 138 Burn Street, the all-abilities playground and the dog park are off Boundary Road, and the blocks run larger than anywhere else in the suburb. Some of these streets are steep; inspect the driveway with a pram in mind.

Suits Families who want space, bush at the end of the street and Whites Hill State College a walk away. The biggest blocks in 4152.

4The Ferguson Road ridge

Ferguson Road, Perth Street and the streets around the bowls club

Elevated, breezy, and the fire station and bowls club are the landmarks. Houses on the high side of the ridge pick up the city, and the ground falls away to the park below. The best of the post-war highsets are here, many already reworked with the deck facing the skyline.

Suits Buyers chasing the view. The bowls club sits on this ridge because of the city skyline across Perth Street Park.

5The Old Cleveland Road strip

Old Cleveland Road from the Coorparoo line to the Camp Hill Hotel, and the first streets either side: Orwell, Pampling, Madeline and Kismet

The 1926 School of Arts at 642, the state school at 676, the cafes and Cinco Bistro in the 500s, and a bus every few minutes at Stop 30. The older pre-war homes sit along this ridge and on the Coorparoo end, so the character overlay is more common here than on the streets behind. Inspect at 7.30am and again at 5.30pm before you decide the road does not bother you.

Suits Families who want the primary school, the buses and Cinco within walking distance and will trade a busier front street for it. Best value in the suburb if the noise checks out.

Getting around

CBD by busAbout 20 minRoutes 200 and 222 from Stop 30 on Old Cleveland Road, every 15 minutes in the peak
Central by trainAbout 12 minFrom Coorparoo station, a five-minute drive
CBD by car15 to 20 minOutside the peak, via Old Cleveland Road or Stanley Road

Bus

Old Cleveland Road is the reason Camp Hill works without a train. From Stop 30 at Camp Hill: route 200 to Queen Street every 15 minutes in the peak, route 222 to Roma Street via the Eastern Busway every 15 minutes, route 204 to the city and Fortitude Valley about every 20 to 30 minutes, and route 209 to UQ Lakes. About 20 minutes to the CBD. Route 203 is the local loop through Samuel Street, Martha Street and Burn Street to the PA Hospital, roughly hourly. The Eastern Busway ends at Langlands Park; the extension through Camp Hill is planned but unfunded.

Route 200 timetableRoute 222 timetable

Train

Coorparoo station on the Cleveland line sits on Cavendish Road about two kilometres from Martha Street, a five-minute drive, with 148 parking bays. About twelve minutes to Central; check the timetable for the express pattern. Most Camp Hill families use the bus instead.

Train timetable

Road

Fifteen to twenty minutes to the CBD by car via Old Cleveland Road and Stones Corner, or Stanley Road and the Gabba, outside the peak. Twenty to twenty-five minutes to the airport via the Gateway Motorway, a toll each way. Westfield Carindale in five minutes, Coorparoo Square in five the other way.

Bus routes

30200222204209203

Route numbers named in the bus notes above. Timetables on Translink.

Pinch points Old Cleveland Road inbound queues from Coorparoo to Stones Corner from 7.30am, and the school drop-off at the primary school adds to it. Samuel Street and Martha Street parking is gone by 8.30am on a Saturday. The Whites Hill Reserve car park fills on weekend mornings when junior sport is on. Inspect any Old Cleveland Road or Stanley Road house in the peak before you decide.

The houses

What is here
Mostly post-war: 1950s and 60s brick and timber homes, many lifted and built in underneath or extended out the back, with a run of pre-1947 Queenslanders along the Old Cleveland Road ridge and the Coorparoo end. A steady stream of knockdown-rebuilds on the flatter streets around the Marketplace, and very few units; the ones that exist sit along Old Cleveland Road.
Block sizes
600 to 800 square metres is normal and the Whites Hill side runs bigger. That is the point of Camp Hill over Coorparoo: a family gets a yard and a flat bit of it.
Character overlays
Only the pre-1947 stock, mostly along Old Cleveland Road and toward Coorparoo, sits under the traditional building character overlay. Most of the suburb is post-war and outside it, which is why the knockdown-rebuild market exists here and not in Hawthorne. The heritage-listed places are few and specific: Isleworth, St Helens, Forster's Dairy Cottage, the 1926 School of Arts at 642 Old Cleveland Road and 625 metres of tram track in the median. Check the overlay on City Plan before you plan a lift and build.
How it was built
  1. Pre-1947Queenslanders went up along the Old Cleveland Road ridge and toward Coorparoo, the stock now under the character overlay.
  2. 1926The School of Arts opened at 642 Old Cleveland Road; it is heritage-listed today.
  3. 1950s to 60sBrick and timber post-war homes filled most of the suburb, the highsets on the Ferguson Road ridge among the best.
  4. 2010sAround Martha Street, most post-war homes were lifted, extended or replaced over fifteen years.
  5. NowKnockdown-rebuilds concentrate on the flatter streets around the Marketplace; units stay rare and sit along Old Cleveland Road.

What the money buys

Under $1.5m

A post-war three-bedder that needs work on the flatter streets, a small-lot house on the Carina end, or a townhouse. Our published Camp Hill purchases start at $770,000.

$2m to $2.5m

A renovated four-bedder on 600 square metres near Martha Street or the reserve. This is where most of our family briefs in Camp Hill have landed.

$3m and above

A finished new build with the city from the deck, or a big block on the Whites Hill side that never reached the portals. Our published Camp Hill purchases run to $3,750,000.

14 purchases since 2024, 12 with published prices from $770,000 to $3,750,000. Live grid on the page.

See the homes we have secured here

What to check before you buy in Camp Hill

Flood

Camp Hill sits high, and most of it stayed dry in 2022. The exceptions are the low ground on the western edge toward Coorparoo and Norman Park, where the Norman Creek system's tributaries run, and the creek-flat parks. Pull the FloodWise Property Report for the exact lot, check the overland flow path as well as the creek layer, and get an insurance quote before the building and pest, not after.

Flood Awareness MapFloodWise Property Report

Noise

Old Cleveland Road is the loud street, and Stanley Road and Chatsworth Road carry through traffic too. Since the parallel runway opened in 2020, parts of the inner east hear aircraft they did not before. Type the address into the Brisbane Airport flight path tool, then stand in the backyard at 7am and again at 9pm.

Brisbane Airport flight path tool

Overlays and approvals

Traditional building character on the pre-1947 stock near Old Cleveland Road, and the steeper streets can carry landslide or waterway overlays. City Plan's interactive mapping shows every overlay on the lot, and Development.i shows what the neighbours have been approved to build, which matters on a street with a knockdown-rebuild every few doors.

City Plan mappingDevelopment.i

Catchments

Six primary catchments and three secondary touch the suburb, and every one of them is drawn on EdMap. Check the lot, then ring the school.

Queensland EdMap

Red flags

  • A low block on the western edge toward Coorparoo with no FloodWise report and no recent flood insurance quote.
  • An Old Cleveland Road, Stanley Road or Chatsworth Road frontage with single-glazed bedrooms at the front and no fence.
  • A post-war house that has been lifted and built in underneath, or a new build on a steep block, without the council approvals and retaining wall certification on file. Ask for the records before you fall for the finish.

Where the value sits

  • An unrenovated post-war house on 700 square metres on a quiet street between Martha Street and the reserve, outside the character overlay, that can be reworked without the heritage hurdles.
  • The Coorparoo end, where the price is lower, Coorparoo State School and the station are closer, and the village is still ten minutes on foot.
  • A big block on the Whites Hill side. They come up rarely and go quietly, often before the portals.

Photos: Camp Hill Marketplace, Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0; Whites Hill Reserve, Lyle Radford http://www.lyleradford.com.au, CC BY 2.0; The Ferguson Road ridge, Brisparks, used with permission; The Old Cleveland Road strip, Mnisawlpsa, CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons; Coorparoo station, TravellerQLD, CC BY-SA 3.0; Brisbane Transport bus, BrisbaneBuzSpotter, CC BY-SA 4.0; Story Bridge, Kangaroo Point, John Robert McPherson, CC BY-SA 4.0; Whites Hill Reserve, Lyle Radford http://www.lyleradford.com.au, CC BY 2.0; Whites Hill Reserve playground, John Robert McPherson, CC0; Perth Street Park, Brisparks, used with permission; Seven Hills Bushland Reserve, Magnus Manske, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons; Coorparoo State School, Chris Olszewski, CC BY-SA 4.0; Villanova College, Commander Keane, CC0; Camp Hill Kindy, courtesy of the school; The Learning Sanctuary Camp Hill, The Learning Sanctuary (G8 Education), courtesy of the school; Camp Hill Marketplace, Chris Olszewski, CC BY-SA 4.0; Westfield Carindale, Kyethepie21, CC0; Greenslopes Private Hospital, Chris Olszewski, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Buying in Camp Hill: the questions we get

Camp Hill State Infants and Primary for the centre and north of the suburb and Whites Hill State College for most of the south and east, with Coorparoo State School on the western streets, Mayfield State School in the north-eastern corner and Seven Hills State School on a few northern streets. Secondary is Whites Hill State College for most addresses and Coorparoo Secondary College on the north-western side; Cavendish Road State High and Holland Park State School only touch the bushland on the southern edge. All of it is drawn street by street on EdMap, so check the exact address and ask us which side of the line a house sits on.

Most of it does not; the suburb sits on the ridges and stayed largely dry in 2022. The low ground on the western edge toward Coorparoo and Norman Park is in the Norman Creek catchment and needs the FloodWise report and an insurance quote before you commit. Every Camp Hill purchase we make starts with that report and the overland flow map.

The bus. Routes 200 and 222 run along Old Cleveland Road to the CBD every 15 minutes in the peak, about 20 minutes door to door. Coorparoo station is a five-minute drive for the Cleveland line. By car it is fifteen to twenty minutes outside the peak.

Yes. Three named hills, and the streets between them rise and fall. It is why so much of the suburb has a view and why the flatter streets around the Marketplace carry the knockdown-rebuilds. Walk the block with a pram before you buy on a steep street, and check the driveway grade.

In 2026, a renovated four-bedder on around 600 square metres near Martha Street or the reserve, or an unrenovated house on a bigger block. Most of our Camp Hill family briefs have landed between $2 million and $2.5 million, and the ceiling for a properly finished house sits well above the median.

Coorparoo has the train, the Square and the deeper unit market. Camp Hill has bigger blocks, more hill, the reserve at the end of the street and a primary school families move for. Families who want a yard usually end up in Camp Hill; families who want the station end up in Coorparoo.

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